Airport 64-bit WEP support ?

[Rosyna]

Ack, at 1/29/07, Matt Johnston said:

>And sometimes WPA/WPA2 are not available. Sometimes WEP is all you have.

And since WEP is the same as having no security, turning off WEP 
offers the same protection if you're having compatibility issues with 
different implementations.

>WEP is something you can have to stop the casual wardriver.

No, it's not. Because of the speed of cracking it and the amount of 
automated tools available, it's entirely trivial for a wardriver to 
break WEP.

Conversely, I haven't seen any known attacks for WPA2 even for the 
dedicated hacker, (other than the standard dictionary attack, of 
course. Although it seems 802.11i has a method to block some kinds of 
online dictionary attacks).

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wireless_security for more.

>WEP is not meant to be "secure" in any meaning of the word. It (used 
>to) stand for Wired Equivalency Protocol (though wikipedia says 
>"Wired_Equivalent_Privacy". Do you understand that? It's to give the 
>same "security" as if you were on a wire. Are wired communications 
>secure? No, of course not.

Wired communications are far more secure than wireless if the only 
way to access the wired connection point is to be inside a given 
building at a given location. Wired connections using switches or 
routers are also far more secure than wireless as one wired client 
cannot spy on the packets of another wired client.

>The sky is not falling.

Wirelss is done in the sky.
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